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This week, Beatriz Victoria Albina returns to Insatiable for part two of our conversation on ending emotional outsourcing — the habit of looking outside ourselves for validation, safety, and worth.

In this episode, we explore the practices that help you come back home to yourself: tuning into your needs, regulating your nervous system, returning to your body, and reclaiming your center.

It all begins with one simple but powerful question: What feels good right now?

Join us as we explore what it means to live from that place of connection and self-trust.

We discuss:

• How to reconnect with your biological impulses
• Functional freeze and how to feel your feelings (not think them)
• Why wellness is not about coffee enemas or random supplements
• The dangers of emotionally outsourcing to wellness professionals
• How we’re trained to prioritize productivity
• Somatic practice and praxis

More about our guest: Beatriz (Béa) Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, SEP (she/her) is a UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, author of End Emotional Outsourcing: a Guide to Overcoming Codependent, Perfectionist and People Pleasing Habits and Breathwork Meditation Guide with a passion for helping humans socialized as women to reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems and rewire their minds, so they can break free from codependency, perfectionism and people pleasing and reclaim their joy.

She is the host of the Feminist Wellness Podcast, holds a Masters degree in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health and a BA in Latin American Studies from Oberlin College. Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Béa grew up in the great state of Rhode Island. She has been working in health & wellness for over 20 years and lives with her wife, Billey Albina and their handsome all-black cat Wade.

Connect with Béa:

• Website
• Book Website
• Instagram: @beatrizvictoriaalbinanp
• Podcast: Feminist Wellness
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Free Meditations

Today, I’m joined by Beatriz Victoria Albina for a conversation about the emotions that often hide beneath common gut issues—and why codependency isn’t the real problem (and boundaries aren’t the full solution).

We also dive into her new book, End Emotional Outsourcing: A Guide to Overcoming Codependent, Perfectionist, and People-Pleasing Habits, where Beatriz offers powerful reframes on parenting, community, and self-trust.

This episode feels like a deep exhale—a reminder that healing isn’t about fixing yourself, but coming home to yourself.

Join us for part one today, and come back next week for part two.

We discuss:

• Our backgrounds with functional medicine
• What it means to end emotional outsourcing
• Why codependency isn’t the problem and boundaries aren’t the answer
• How patriarchy undermines caring for each other and ourselves
• Why perfectionism isn’t an identity - it’s a habit
• Attachment styles and “good enough” parenting
• How to stop striving and actually relax
• Polyvagal theory for healthy skeptics
• Functional freeze and why we dissociate from joy
• Why people-pleasing isn’t a problem — it’s a protection strategy

More about our guest: Beatriz (Béa) Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, SEP (she/her) is a UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, author of End Emotional Outsourcing: a Guide to Overcoming Codependent, Perfectionist and People Pleasing Habits and Breathwork Meditation Guide with a passion for helping humans socialized as women to reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems and rewire their minds, so they can break free from codependency, perfectionism and people pleasing and reclaim their joy.

She is the host of the Feminist Wellness Podcast, holds a Masters degree in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health and a BA in Latin American Studies from Oberlin College. Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Béa grew up in the great state of Rhode Island. She has been working in health & wellness for over 20 years and lives with her wife, Billey Albina and their handsome all-black cat Wade.

Connect with Béa:

• Website
• Book Website
• Instagram: @beatrizvictoriaalbinanp
• Podcast: Feminist Wellness
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Free Meditations

Body Stories is back — and we’re halfway through the journey.

Sas Petherick returns to share what she’s learning six months into her year-long holistic weight loss experiment. She opens up about how her relationship with food is evolving, what strength feels like in her body now, and how all of it is reshaping her work as a coach.

Together, we explore what it means to approach weight loss as an act of care — not punishment — especially in midlife, when everything from metabolism to motivation starts to shift.

If you’re tired of all-or-nothing thinking about your health, this one’s for you. And if you're ready to untangle your own food triggers, RSVP for my free workshop on September 3rd.

We discuss:

• The power of loving limits and keeping promises to yourself
• How diet culture, wellness influencers, and capitalism shape your body story
• What “complexity fitness” means — and why it matters for you to hold the nuance
• Why taking a break from Instagram can change how you see yourself
• Why a glucose monitor won’t give you all the answers
• Letting yourself be more high-maintenance

More about our guest: Sas Petherick believes that healing our self-doubt is one of the most important contributions we can make to ourselves, our families, our work, and the world.

Sas holds a Master's degree from Oxford, and her research on self-doubt was published in the International Journal of Coaching and Mentoring. She has developed an evidence-based, trauma-informed, ICF-accredited coaching methodology for cultivating self-belief.

For over a decade, Sas has coached with hundreds of women experiencing self-doubt in their professional and personal lives. Sas hosts the top 1% rated self-doubt podcast Courage & Spice which has enjoyed over half a million downloads. She is also an accomplished speaker and has developed coaching workshops and programmes for clients like BBC Worldwide and Pinterest. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines.

After 25 years in the UK, Sas currently lives by the beach in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, with her partner Ash and pooch Bohdi, imagining a post-capitalist world, exploring consciousness, and listening to obscure UFO podcasts.

Connect with Sas Petherick:

• Visits Sas’s website
• Follow Sas on Instagram
• Subscribe to Sas’s newsletter Courage & Spice

⭐️ Ready to catch yourself before you fall off track? RSVP for my free workshop on September 3rd.

Hospitals are the safest place to have your baby. Doctor’s are using evidence-based care. Right? Not exactly. In this episode, we get into the unreported side of birth so you know the full range of your choices from whether to be induced to understanding why what’s often the “normal”, standard of care might not be right for you.

In this episode, we discuss: 

• Belief versus evidence-based care around due dates, labor and pain management choices
• The 4 qualities of a satisfying birth experience for Mothers
• An important practice to ensure a confident transition into Motherhood

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After giving birth, all the attention shifts to the baby. Yet Mothers have just gone through a rebirth themselves. Ayurveda says 40 days of care for 40 years of health are necessary for women post-childbirth. Kimberly Johnson shares with us how to cultivate a 4th trimester that sets a strong foundation for this new life phase.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Kimberly’s story about not having the 4th trimester she needed
• Why you need to design a 4th trimester and how willpower, self-sufficiency and resourcefulness aren’t enough to power through post-birth
• The five postpartum needs and when you can incorporate postpartum care into your life even if you’re past the postpartum period to cultivate resilience and thrive

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Conventional nutrition guidelines and myths like “you can eat for two” influence how we eat in pregnancy. Layered on is managing weight gain fears and expectations. For those with a history of battling food, pregnancy can leave us overwhelmed with how to eat and enjoy this time.

In this episode, Ali will look at pre-natal nutrition and the psychology of pregnancy nutrition, including:

• How mainstream nutrition recommendations are outdated and how to find what works for your body amidst expectations that you are powerless over cravings, fatigue, and constipation
  
  
• Easy and simple dietary tweaks that will empower you to grow a healthy baby and feel great during your pregnancy
  
  
• Weight gain expectations and how to trust your body's own weight response to pregnancy

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Rachelle Garcia Seliga takes us on a riveting ride of midwifery history and how understanding our physiology can facilitate an empowered birth experience, support our health from womb to tomb and birth the culture change we need to support maternal health. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• How the witch hunts —which targeted midwives—and racism have influenced how we understand gynecology and what’s “normal” for women’s reproductive care and birth
  
  
• The three physiologic requirements a woman has in labor and birth to feel empowered by her birth experience 
  
  
• The #1 need we have in labor, birth and postpartum to be able to lay the foundation for transforming our health and relationship to our bodies post-pregnancy

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When trying to get pregnant, we can focus only on nutrition or what’s wrong with our body. And often, Western Medicine’s fertility metrics — whether discouraging or “normal”— aren’t the whole picture we need to pay attention to.

Dr. Joy, a naturopathic physician who helped Ali overcome her infertility diagnosis, shares with us:

• The difference between functional medicine and naturopathy when it comes to fertility and overall health (including a mindset shift to improve your fertility and the health of you and your baby).
  
  
• Common root causes that make conceiving and staying pregnant difficult even with normal fertility numbers because Western Medicine doesn’t know to test for these issues 
  
  
• How you can incorporate natural medicine and fertility assistance like IUI and IVF to maximize your fertility and the health of your baby
  
  

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A woman’s period is considered her fifth vital sign. The health of our period is an indicator of fertility and hormonal health, with our hormones influencing our weight and health. In this episode, women’s health pioneer Alisa Vitti shares with us:

• The science we need to know around our period so we can make informed, empowered choices about our fertility and health
• Why women in their fertile years need carbs and keto and intermittent fasting doesn’t work long-term.
• The energy shifts during our cycle to pay attention so you aren’t eating carbs to push through
  
  

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Conception, navigating a healthy pregnancy, and childbirth can be an invitation into owning your self. Or as Dr. Brogan says, “not giving your power away”. In this episode we discuss:

• How Dr. Brogan’s pregnancy and two patient’s stillbirths following the flu shot were her awakening to taking back her mind, body and soul
• The A-plus life we miss out on when we bypass our pain
• Dr. Brogan’s two very different unmedicated births and how each of them were what she needed at that time
• The postpartum period, which is similar to the pre-menstrual and perimenopause/menopause phases, as powerful catalysts into self-actualization
  
  

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